Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 73 84
Rank change year-on-year -16 +11 -30
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 2,073 1,827 2,408
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.95% 3.67% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.66% 4.11% 3.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,444 882 1,626
10th Percentile £45,456 £49,550 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.97%
75th Percentile £93,634 £93,778 £85,188
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -5.19%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 78,019 44,452 67,790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.52% 89.29% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 53,759 25,267 43,796
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 11 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 11 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -15 1,816 £75,000 +3.45% 1,135
UK excluding London -29 1,131 £65,000 -7.14% 525
Work from Home -23 888 £66,000 -5.71% 547
London -12 806 £85,000 +3.03% 723
North of England -39 374 £70,000 - 157
South East +20 320 £65,000 -7.14% 145
North West -51 200 £75,000 +7.14% 82
South West -29 131 £57,500 -4.17% 54
Midlands -64 108 £67,500 -1.82% 64
North East +19 97 £65,000 +18.18% 30
Yorkshire -4 77 £62,500 -10.71% 45
West Midlands -42 77 £80,000 +14.29% 38
Northern Ireland -18 62 £60,000 +33.33% 22
Wales -18 58 £68,750 +32.21% 19
East of England -37 46 £60,100 -3.84% 18
Scotland -52 34 £60,000 -24.44% 50
East Midlands -54 30 £64,000 +6.67% 26
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 39 (1.88%) Confluence
2 27 (1.30%) Apache Spark
3 16 (0.77%) Apache
4 15 (0.72%) CMS
5 14 (0.68%) IIS
6 13 (0.63%) Camunda
7 9 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.39%) JBoss
8 8 (0.39%) WordPress
9 7 (0.34%) nginx
9 7 (0.34%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.24%) Drupal
12 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
12 4 (0.19%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.14%) DNN
13 3 (0.14%) GeoServer
13 3 (0.14%) Kentico
13 3 (0.14%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 11 (0.53%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.48%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.24%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.096%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.048%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.29%) Oracle Retail
3 4 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.096%) Shopify
6 1 (0.048%) Eikon
6 1 (0.048%) RMDS
6 1 (0.048%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,064 (51.33%) AWS
2 888 (42.84%) Azure
3 334 (16.11%) GCP
4 266 (12.83%) Serverless
5 250 (12.06%) GitHub
6 192 (9.26%) SaaS
7 180 (8.68%) Azure DevOps
8 141 (6.80%) AWS Lambda
9 125 (6.03%) Amazon S3
10 109 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
11 106 (5.11%) AWS CloudFormation
12 104 (5.02%) GitHub Copilot
13 94 (4.53%) Azure Service Bus
14 83 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
15 70 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
16 69 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
17 68 (3.28%) Amazon SQS
18 64 (3.09%) Azure AKS
19 52 (2.51%) PaaS
20 50 (2.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 54 (2.60%) Broadband
2 25 (1.21%) Network Security
3 14 (0.68%) DNS
3 14 (0.68%) MQTT
4 13 (0.63%) DMARC
5 8 (0.39%) HTTP
5 8 (0.39%) Internet
5 8 (0.39%) VPN
6 7 (0.34%) AMQP
6 7 (0.34%) Firewall
6 7 (0.34%) Hyperconnected
6 7 (0.34%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.29%) DHCP
7 6 (0.29%) RFID
8 5 (0.24%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (0.14%) LTE
9 3 (0.14%) Modbus
9 3 (0.14%) NAS
9 3 (0.14%) SAN
10 2 (0.096%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 308 (14.86%) MongoDB
2 232 (11.19%) PostgreSQL
3 203 (9.79%) NoSQL
4 167 (8.06%) Azure SQL Database
5 160 (7.72%) Elasticsearch
6 124 (5.98%) MySQL
7 121 (5.84%) SQL Server
8 95 (4.58%) Relational Database
9 70 (3.38%) Redis
10 53 (2.56%) DynamoDB
11 49 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
12 28 (1.35%) Big Data
13 19 (0.92%) RDBMS
14 15 (0.72%) BigQuery
14 15 (0.72%) Data Lake
14 15 (0.72%) Pinecone
15 12 (0.58%) Db2
15 12 (0.58%) DTS
16 10 (0.48%) Geospatial Data
17 8 (0.39%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 270 (13.02%) Git
2 189 (9.12%) GitLab
3 163 (7.86%) Jenkins
4 64 (3.09%) JUnit
5 63 (3.04%) JIRA
6 56 (2.70%) TeamCity
7 47 (2.27%) Cucumber
8 39 (1.88%) Mockito
9 36 (1.74%) Cypress.io
10 33 (1.59%) Claude Code
11 32 (1.54%) Maven
12 24 (1.16%) Selenium
13 22 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 17 (0.82%) CircleCI
14 17 (0.82%) SonarQube
15 15 (0.72%) Postman
15 15 (0.72%) Spock
16 13 (0.63%) JMeter
16 13 (0.63%) REST Assured
17 12 (0.58%) Vite
General
1 521 (25.13%) Finance
2 404 (19.49%) Social Skills
3 215 (10.37%) Public Sector
4 186 (8.97%) Banking
5 150 (7.24%) Law
6 149 (7.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 137 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
8 118 (5.69%) Retail
9 82 (3.96%) Legal
10 63 (3.04%) Financial Institution
11 62 (2.99%) Marketing
12 44 (2.12%) Back Office
13 33 (1.59%) Aerospace
14 29 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
15 28 (1.35%) Legal Technology
16 24 (1.16%) Games
17 21 (1.01%) Advertising
18 20 (0.96%) Front Office
19 17 (0.82%) Telecoms
20 15 (0.72%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 763 (36.81%) Developer
2 495 (23.88%) Senior
3 380 (18.33%) Software Engineer
4 346 (16.69%) Lead
5 293 (14.13%) Architect
6 204 (9.84%) .NET Developer
7 181 (8.73%) Senior Developer
8 165 (7.96%) Full-Stack Developer
9 154 (7.43%) Java Developer
10 135 (6.51%) Java Engineer
11 123 (5.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 120 (5.79%) Senior Software Engineer
13 105 (5.07%) Solutions Architect
14 101 (4.87%) Principal Engineer
15 84 (4.05%) Software Developer
16 80 (3.86%) Lead Software Engineer
17 73 (3.52%) Lead Developer
18 72 (3.47%) DevOps Engineer
19 57 (2.75%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
20 55 (2.65%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 554 (26.72%) .NET
2 440 (21.23%) React
3 424 (20.45%) Node.js
4 351 (16.93%) Spring
5 319 (15.39%) Spring Boot
6 305 (14.71%) RESTful
7 280 (13.51%) REST
8 260 (12.54%) Kafka
9 245 (11.82%) ASP.NET
10 227 (10.95%) .NET Core
11 219 (10.56%) AngularJS
12 215 (10.37%) Vue
13 198 (9.55%) ASP.NET Core
14 117 (5.64%) Blazor
15 105 (5.07%) ASP.NET Web API
16 99 (4.78%) .NET Framework
17 95 (4.58%) HTML
18 92 (4.44%) CSS
19 80 (3.86%) RabbitMQ
20 77 (3.71%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 641 (30.92%) Cloud Native
2 364 (17.56%) Distributed Systems
3 143 (6.90%) Product Ownership
4 109 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
5 106 (5.11%) Enterprise Software
6 75 (3.62%) Onboarding
7 53 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
8 47 (2.27%) AI Agents
9 44 (2.12%) Public Cloud
10 43 (2.07%) Virtual Team
11 39 (1.88%) Video\Live Streaming
12 37 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
13 35 (1.69%) Over-the-Top Content
14 34 (1.64%) e-Learning
15 27 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
16 26 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
17 24 (1.16%) Management Information System
18 23 (1.11%) Algorithms
18 23 (1.11%) Data Structures
19 20 (0.96%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 137 (6.61%) Linux
2 50 (2.41%) Windows
3 22 (1.06%) Unix
4 21 (1.01%) CentOS
4 21 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (0.39%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.34%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.29%) Android
8 5 (0.24%) AIX
9 4 (0.19%) Debian
9 4 (0.19%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.096%) VMS
11 1 (0.048%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,085 (52.34%) CI/CD
2 986 (47.56%) Agile
3 741 (35.75%) Software Engineering
4 728 (35.12%) DevOps
5 582 (28.08%) Full-Stack Development
6 506 (24.41%) Mentoring
7 443 (21.37%) Event-Driven
8 440 (21.23%) AI
9 436 (21.03%) Containerisation
10 413 (19.92%) Continuous Improvement
11 411 (19.83%) Test Automation
12 403 (19.44%) Infrastructure as Code
13 379 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
14 291 (14.04%) Scrum
15 287 (13.84%) Technical Leadership
16 277 (13.36%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 252 (12.16%) TDD
18 235 (11.34%) Clean Code
19 229 (11.05%) Architectural Patterns
20 220 (10.61%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 698 (33.67%) Java
2 573 (27.64%) C#
3 509 (24.55%) SQL
4 488 (23.54%) Python
5 466 (22.48%) JavaScript
6 380 (18.33%) TypeScript
7 112 (5.40%) Go
8 54 (2.60%) Ruby
9 45 (2.17%) C++
9 45 (2.17%) Scala
10 41 (1.98%) PHP
11 40 (1.93%) Bash
12 28 (1.35%) PowerShell
13 26 (1.25%) Bicep
14 24 (1.16%) Kotlin
15 22 (1.06%) Rust
16 20 (0.96%) C
16 20 (0.96%) PL/SQL
17 13 (0.63%) Groovy
18 12 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 287 (13.84%) Security Cleared
2 192 (9.26%) SC Cleared
3 190 (9.17%) Degree
4 84 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 80 (3.86%) DV Cleared
6 73 (3.52%) AWS Certification
7 46 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (1.40%) CISSP
9 27 (1.30%) Azure Certification
10 18 (0.87%) Master's Degree
11 15 (0.72%) CISM
12 14 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
13 10 (0.48%) DBS Check
13 10 (0.48%) MBA
13 10 (0.48%) PhD
14 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 5 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.19%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 209 (10.08%) QA
2 88 (4.25%) Accessibility
3 39 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 36 (1.74%) GDPR
5 34 (1.64%) WCAG
6 19 (0.92%) NIST
7 18 (0.87%) SOC 2
8 17 (0.82%) NCSC
8 17 (0.82%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.63%) GRC
10 11 (0.53%) Data Quality
11 10 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
12 9 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 8 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
16 5 (0.24%) PSD2
17 4 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 4 (0.19%) SEPA
18 3 (0.14%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 594 (28.65%) Docker
2 34 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.24%) NDS
4 5 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.19%) Firmware
5 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.14%) KVM
7 1 (0.048%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 627 (30.25%) Kubernetes
2 361 (17.41%) Terraform
3 111 (5.35%) Ansible
4 93 (4.49%) Grafana
5 54 (2.60%) Prometheus
6 26 (1.25%) Argo
7 22 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
8 18 (0.87%) Puppet
9 17 (0.82%) Kibana
10 12 (0.58%) Cilium
11 7 (0.34%) HP Fortify
12 6 (0.29%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.24%) Podman
14 4 (0.19%) Packer
15 3 (0.14%) Kubeflow
16 2 (0.096%) MIIS
16 2 (0.096%) Rancher
17 1 (0.048%) Istio
17 1 (0.048%) logstash
17 1 (0.048%) Nagios
Vendors
1 329 (15.87%) Microsoft
2 95 (4.58%) Google
3 68 (3.28%) Oracle
4 39 (1.88%) OpenAI
5 36 (1.74%) Splunk
6 35 (1.69%) Typelevel
7 27 (1.30%) Dynatrace
8 23 (1.11%) AppDynamics
8 23 (1.11%) IBM
9 21 (1.01%) Databricks
9 21 (1.01%) Okta
10 20 (0.96%) ForgeRock
11 14 (0.68%) OneLogin
11 14 (0.68%) SAP
12 13 (0.63%) Adobe
12 13 (0.63%) Salesforce
12 13 (0.63%) SendGrid
13 12 (0.58%) ServiceNow
14 11 (0.53%) Red Hat
15 8 (0.39%) OpenText